The world is a fascinating place! The 2023-24 Sidore Lecture series will explore how curiosity and creativity feed passion for life. 9/14/2023 Trevor ChandlerGetting Along Is Boring, Let’s Fight: Embrace Conflict and Live the Most Interesting Life Political toxicity and polarization continue to strain our institutions and civic cohesiveness with studies showing less trust between Republicans and Democrats than between ...

Cheryl Savageau will read from her poetry collections Dirt Road Home and Mother/Land, which explore facets of New England / Indigenous place and identity. Siobhan Senier writes, in Studies in American Indian Literature, that Savageau’s poetry “comes out of a long line of Abenaki writing traceable all the way back to the precontact birchbark maps called awikhiganak” and “challenges readers ...